I too am doing an ongar for my ancient world history project, but a smaller one. About 12in long,6in wide and tall. I was wondering if you could giveme tips on the friing mechanism, the twisted rope.
yeah for something that size you could just take a caribiner and cut it so its more of a C shape, have a small ring attached to the arm and then a rope to the caribiner to pull back on.
now that's sweet...I built an onager a while ago but decided I liked trebuchets better (more range; easier to build?). this makes me want to build another onager :D
Yea man its sweet... ur right though its WAY hard to make, specially cause there are not any blueprints out there. Had to design it too. Sad thing is it broke, I torqued the spring to much and the left side frame cracked a bit, should be easy to fix . U make any trebuchets? I wanna make one tis summer
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Sm3ulders 11 months ago
I too am doing an ongar for my ancient world history project, but a smaller one. About 12in long,6in wide and tall. I was wondering if you could giveme tips on the friing mechanism, the twisted rope.
ChaosXRewritten 4 years ago
yeah for something that size you could just take a caribiner and cut it so its more of a C shape, have a small ring attached to the arm and then a rope to the caribiner to pull back on.
willscooper 3 years ago
Nice onager, have been trying to build one but keeps on breaking or is under powered, what kind of rope do you use?
cameriio 4 years ago
use someething that can stretch just a little... any rope too brittle will snap or can cause stress fractures on hte main frame
willscooper 3 years ago
does it use a counterweight or a bow?
anyway, thats pretty much a mix of a onager and a trebuchet
Knukleheada 4 years ago
The one which uses a bow is a mangonel. This is a true onager
bikeloon 4 years ago
now that's sweet...I built an onager a while ago but decided I liked trebuchets better (more range; easier to build?). this makes me want to build another onager :D
timrogers500 5 years ago
Yea man its sweet... ur right though its WAY hard to make, specially cause there are not any blueprints out there. Had to design it too. Sad thing is it broke, I torqued the spring to much and the left side frame cracked a bit, should be easy to fix . U make any trebuchets? I wanna make one tis summer
willscooper 5 years ago
Excellent! I am working on a ballista/catapulta too!
klinkthud 5 years ago
kool
xmodman 5 years ago